Car slides into water in Braintree, no injuries

Friday

BRAINTREE — No one was injured when a car slid off the road and into the Monatiquot River at the Union Street Rotary on Thursday night.

“It was pretty innocuous,” said Fire Lt. Frederick Viola, the department’s public relations officer. “I’m not sure how he did it, really.”

Viola said the car’s driver, its only occupant, got out of the car by himself and waited there for police and firefighters to arrive. When a tow truck arrived, firefighters lent the tow truck driver a cold-water immersion suit so he could safely hook the car up to be towed, Viola said.